Golf club



A. E. BUHRKE GOLF CLUB Filed Au. 2 1926 Patented ea. 4, 1927.

,Leiasie ear-as ALFRED E. ,BUHRKE, or RIVER roftnsr, ILLINOIS.

GOLF CLUB. I

' Application filed August 2, 1926. Serial No. 126,448.

My invention is concerned with golf clubspand more especially with the so-called wooden clubs in which a wooden clubhead is secured to an elastic shaft, and it is designed to produce a better looking club that can be more cheaply manufactured than those now in use, and which will require less attention to keep it in perfect order.

To this end, instead of merely gluing the uniformly tapered end of the shaft into the correspondingly tapered "aperture in the hosel or neck ofthe club head and then covering the joint by a waxed thread wound around it helically, I employ the novel joint construction hereinafter described and claimed.

To illustrate my invention I annex hereto a sheet of drawings in whichthe same reference characters are used to designate identical parts in both figures, in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a club head and a portion of the shaft embodying my invention; and

Fig. 2 is a similar view with a portion thereof in vertical section. V

In carrying out my invention, I construct the shaft a as has been the practice heretofore, except that instead of having the tapered end I) mergeinto the shaft proper without any ofiset I employ the olf'set 0 which has a width equal to the thickness of the adjacent end of the tapered sleeve or thimble d which is made of some sheet metal, preferably aluminum or some alloy thereof, which will be light and strong, and which can be cemented to the wood with which it contacts. The hosel e of the club head 7 is tapered as has been the .practice heretofore, except that it also has the offset 40 g, likewise of the thickness of the adjacent end of the thimble cl, which is flared and has its internal surface shaped so as to fit over and in substantial contact with the adjacent surfaces of the tapered end I) of 4,5 the shaft a and with the tapered portion of the hosel above the ofiset g. 'The club head is, of course, provided with the bore it of thimble d.

parts are firmly and rigidly secured to the proper size and shape to cooperatewith the tapered end I) of the shaft whenthe parts areassembled as shown with the-offsets 0 and gco-ntacting with the ends ofthe When the parts are assembled as shown, the tapered end 6 and the tapered portion of the hose above the offset are coated with a glue or cement that forms a layer between the three parts Wherever they would otherwise contact, and when it is set, the

gether. It presents advantages over the old construction in that it can be more cheaply manufactured, as. the employment of the sleeve or thimble d eliminates'the time taken to wind on and secure thethread heretofore employed to finish the joint, to say nothing of the time spent in replacing the thread, when it rots, as it soon does in use. It has the additional advantage of materially strengthening theclub at the joint, as it will be obvious that the metallic thimble adds a substantial degree of strength to the structure that .was not inherent in the old arrangement employing the thread wrapping over the joint. The finish is Isuperior and more "attractive, as'the polished metal ismore-attractive in appearance'than' the thread, especially after the latter becomes dulled-as occurs at once when it is put into use. Q What I claim as new and desire-to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-' As a new and useful article of manufacture, a golf club having in combination a shaft with a reduced end separated therefrom by an offset, a head having an aper- 85 ture for said reduced end and tapered above I an ofiset in the neck thereof, and a sleeve having its ends in contact with the offsets and shaped to coo-perateon its interior with the adjacent surfaces ofthe shaft and club head, said sleeve being cemented in place. .In witness'whereof, I have hereunto set" my hand this 29th day of July, 1926. e ALFRED E. 

